Re: Hyperlink Web Browser

[Roy Miller <millers@iliveinnebraska.com>]

Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> Roy Miller <millers@inebraska.com> writes:
>
> >:-) And how can we convince you to move from the "w" word to the "p" word?
> >If you are going to do this for 8 bit Apple's I assume that you will need an
> >assembler. Do you have one?
> >What hard/software would you need to work with?
>
> What I need most of all is information on cross-development tools. It was
> easy developing for the C64 since I had a cross-assembler, disk image
> transfer tools and conversion utilities on my Mac and Unix systems. I
> developed about half on Unix, then ported everything over to a C64 floppy
> and finished the job on the native machine, then imaged everything into
> Commodore disk images for distribution and processing.
>
> For the Apple, I can still use the same cross-assembler (xa) but I'm new
> to doing disk image maintenance. It would be nice to use DOS 3.3, since I'm
> less serviceable with ProDOS, but on the other hand my Macs would handle
> ProDOS a lot better as an interchange format. What caveats are there with
> memory usage with ProDOS, or is there a good memory map I can look at?

Unless it's out on loan, I have the Apple WorkBench for ProDOS, and that would
have a good memory map for you. I'll try to get a scan and email it to you.

DOS 3.3 is limited to 64K, depending on what you are doing, ProDOS, since it uses
the second bank of RAM might well offer you more memory to work with, even though
it takes up more RAM than DOS 3.3. It is also possible (thought I don't know how
to do it) to use even more RAM, as later versions of AppleWorks did. Think of
C-64 vs C-128. Perhaps that would help.

>
>
> Also, is there a good technical document somewhere explaining the ins and
> outs of the IIgs serial port and the Super Serial Card? I should also be
> looking for documentation on serial and ADB mice operation.

I might have what you need on the SSC. Please be aware however, the "metal" is
different on those two serial ports. My understanding is that if you follow
Apple's guidelines, you software would work on both, but I have heard that you
can get more speed if you do program the metal.

I don't have the Hardware Reference for the IIgs (I've been trying....) but I do
have the Firmware Reference, and I can get you whatever data you need from that.

I hope all goes well.

Roy

>
>
> Thanks for suggestions and input.
>
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